<p>I am transferring in the fall and am trying to pick a college. Do I automatically have to live at Porter first semester or can i choose other colleges before Porter?</p>
<p>Yes, according to the admissions you have to live in the “Transfer Community” in Porter. I’m a transfer student as well–and that’s what I’m currently being told. I’ve seen the transfer dorms and they’re brand new/pretty nice. Porter is also an awesome college.</p>
<p>is the college i want to go to so it isnt the biggest deal to me. but do you know if the rooms are set up like dorms or apartments? like do a few rooms share a bathroom/living room or does the hall?</p>
<p>I’m almost positive the transfer housing is set up like dorms. I’m not entirely sure of the bathroom situations–I had a friend who lived in the older Porter building and the bathrooms were communal. </p>
<p>Also, @dchaves07, apparently transfers can’t be affiliated with Porter college? Do you have any idea why?</p>
<p>i have no idea i just heard that, and im completely bummed out. maybe because the transfer community is located on the porter area of campus?</p>
<p>Here’s where the info is: [UC</a> Santa Cruz Transfer Student Information](<a href=“http://housing.ucsc.edu/transfer/index.html]UC”>Transfer Student Housing)</p>
<p>see and that page is for transfers and doesnt say anywhere you cannot be associated with porter.</p>
<p>All the colleges attempt to be of equal enrollment size to ensure that students have equal access to advising resources and get the support they need to be successful in their academic endeavors. With that goal in mind, Porter College (which is already the largest of UCSC’s ten colleges) made the decision not to accept new transfers for affiliation for fall quarter 2010. Transfer students entering in fall 2010 can petition for a change of college affiliation in a future quarter should they wish to affiliate with Porter College.</p>
<p>aleiram51- so this coming fall, as a transfer I wont automatically be put into Porter??</p>
<p>You will for housing but you can be associated to another college.
Also you can move to other housing after your first and second quarters.</p>
<p>thanks! does anybody know if transfers can apply for appartments in the transfer community on Porter??</p>
<p>i think the transfer community is only residence halls… dorms. its one building (or more?) for just transfers set up like dorms. but if you choose to move, i think you can live in apartments of the college you are affiliated with after the first quarter if you don’t like the transfer community.</p>
<p>So I toured the older building that is supposed to be just like the new Porter Transfer building and they are all set up like dorms, the bathroom are co-ed communal and there are several located on each floor.</p>
<p>So not to step on your toes, but I am a new transfer and I read that Porter wasn’t accepting new students, but put Porter as my first choice anyways. Long story short… I got into Porter College.</p>
<p>I had heard the information as well about no new transfers being accepted as Porter students, but I have heard a few announcing on these forums like preppypunk22 that they were placed in Porter. It seems they did allow a few through. And Porter had already been reducing the number of students (both transfers and frosh) they accepted because of the missing residence halls for the last few years.</p>
<p>The transfer community is required for all transfers choosing to live on campus. Transfers are only required to live there for one quarter, though, before they may request to move to their affiliated college housing (space permitting).</p>
<p>The transfer community is one residence hall (dorms) building that was recently renovated during this past school year and is called “Building A” on maps. Building B is the one that most people probably toured. It, like its sister building, had floors added to it, was earthquake retrofitted, has had “eco toilets” installed, and received a general facelift inside. There floors are huge and divided into three halls: North, South, and Center. There are several bathrooms per floor (at least one per hall, sometimes more) and are usually co-ed. There are exceptions, though, so pay attention.</p>
<p>I’m still miffed that transfers are getting Building A. It was supposed to be the upper division/upperclassmen building. Then it was supposed to have at least a floor dedicated to those students. Then, last minute, those of us who had been anticipating living there were told there was no room as had been originally anticipated and promised ):. My favorite part, though, is that as a result of the transfer community, we don’t have room for all of the Porter students who wanted to live on campus and several have been sent to housing at other colleges. We were promised at the start of the calendar year that there would be room at Porter for every single Porter student that wanted to live on campus.</p>
<p>Anywho, the building is newly renovated so take really good care of it if you’re living there. Don’t immediately start vandalizing it like I saw start to happen to Building B.</p>
<p>Funny. I know two people affiliated with Crown who were sent to live at Porter last year because of lack of space.</p>
<p>…I know that totally added to the conversation. XD;</p>
<p>Hate do be a downer, but I’m pretty peeved as well that the A building is only for Transfers. This is by no means the transfers’ faults, of course.
I know of more than one person that was promised a space at Porter but didn’t get it because the A building is off-limits. It’s really annoying because they (they being Porter) campaigned so hard that there was “plenty of space” for every student that submitted an application on time. I was lucky to get a space, but that’s not necessarily the case with quite a few people. I think that having a separate transfer community (that happens to take up half of a specific college’s residences) defeats the purpose of being affiliated with a college at all. If you’re being forced to live at one college, what purpose does it serve to be affiliated elsewhere?</p>
<p>Liesal: That probably only worked out because Porter has taken on fewer students recently. I know of a student who was able to easily switch to an empty single and there were several other empty rooms this past year. I want this back ):</p>
<p>rectangleshorts: I agree on all points. It’s not the fault of the new transfers and this community defeats the purpose of being affiliated with a college for transfers. Even if it’s only for one quarter and they’re able to move, I still believe something is going to be lost. It won’t matter to some, but I know I have greatly enjoyed being a part of the Porter family and it would have been detrimental to my acclimation had I been relegated to another portion of the campus when I wanted to live with my affiliated college.</p>
<p>The housing issues get better too. I went and bothered Joe when I was choosing my housing and asked why I could not choose the substance free hall and why choices were severely limited despite having one of the earlier time slots to pick my room (including why Building A was distinctly missing as a choice when an email just a week prior had indicated it as being available). They hold back most of the rooms in Building B for frosh. Very few are left for sophomores and up. I can understand that, but it’s even more of a blow when there originally was promised space.</p>
<p>I haven’t heard anything about who decided this would be a good idea… with how much Porter has been pimping the space for all Porter students and how Building A would be upperclassmen, my guess is it was a much higher up ruling. I can’t imagine (and don’t want to) Porter saying so many things to us only to pull the rug out literally at the last moment. Honestly speaking, I hope that the transfer community idea is a flop and they get rid of it after this year. But I’m not going to hold my breath.</p>
<p>I am grateful I was not only able to get a space, but to get a single. I’m just not thrilled with being told one thing and reality being something completely different a short time later.</p>
<p>^You said it all perfectly. I really can’t complain much because I also got a space (not without much complications though, unfortunately), but at the same time, I feel like us Porter kids are being cheated out of a real Porter community by being forced to share our space. Don’t get me wrong, I think it will be cool having a bit of a wider variety of people living there, but if they don’t really want to be there, I do think it will be detrimental to the Porter environment.
I also hope it flops, but who knows… This whole situation is just ridiculous.</p>